Insane loading times despite insane hardware

[Mi7Sama]

Hey guys, I know that Fallout 4 loading times are a well-discussed topic, but I'm really out of clues this time. Maybe someone here can help. I'd award numerous digital high fives for any advice.

 

I recently got myself a new pc and wanted to get back into playing Fallout 4 once more, which runs smooth as hell on ultra settings, but for some reason my loading times are extremely long right from the start of the game (entering the first building in Concord almost takes a minute). Same goes for loading the exterior cell.

 

My specs are GeForce 1080 Ti, Intel i5 8600K, 32GB DDR4 RAM, game is installed on a SSD of course. Turning on and off VSync doesn't seem to affect it. I have some mods active, but nothing crazy. Mostly just a few additional weapons and armor. Nothing that'd chew up the performance.

 

This is particularly ridiculous, considering that my old notebook has to run Fallout 4 on low settings, but the loading times are way shorter nevertheless.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited July 30, 2018 by Mi7Sama

[blitzen]

Have you run any benchmarking software to make sure the SSD is healthy?

[GDA3141]

HiMi7sama,

 

While I dont suspect it is performance related, i would suggest running a benchtest, if no results, next disable the mods, load and test, if it still persists p.m. me. I ran into something with my new MSI, with similar performance specs, and ultimately deleted excessive saves games,anyways I suspected it was a corrupted save, however I didn't completely verify that because I also verified the game integrity cache right after that, and it updated the cache.. the load times after that were better and ultimately I reinstalled FO4, better, but I felt it wasnt completely resolved. Finally i used an older clean save. It drove me bonkers, but was fixed. Literally, it load in less than a minute and I'm heavily molded. I had attempted doing so many things that I wondered if all along it was a corrupted save.

[GDA3141]

However I truly never verifies it. I hope that any of that works and at least let me know what the solution was. I just got impatient and didn't follow through.

Best,

GDA

[Mi7Sama]

Have you run any benchmarking software to make sure the SSD is healthy?

 

Actually I didn't run any benchmarking software. The entire computer's just a few days old, so I didn't consider it necessary. Everything else (other games and applications) seems to run incredibly fast, which is why I assume that the SSD is working as intended.

 

 

HiMi7sama,

 

While I dont suspect it is performance related, i would suggest running a benchtest, if no results, next disable the mods, load and test, if it still persists p.m. me. I ran into something with my new MSI, with similar performance specs, and ultimately deleted excessive saves games,anyways I suspected it was a corrupted save, however I didn't completely verify that because I also verified the game integrity cache right after that, and it updated the cache.. the load times after that were better and ultimately I reinstalled FO4, better, but I felt it wasnt completely resolved. Finally i used an older clean save. It drove me bonkers, but was fixed. Literally, it load in less than a minute and I'm heavily molded. I had attempted doing so many things that I wondered if all along it was a corrupted save.

 

I dare to say that it's not a corrupted save file. Even the first loading screen upon starting a new game takes ages and I have started several new games, all with the same loading times... I'll try to disable some of the mods and might run some benchtest as soon as I'm home. Not really expecting any breakthrough, though, considering that I ran F4 with way more mods and way shorter loading screens on my old computer.

Edited July 30, 2018 by Mi7Sama

[Deleted3082751User]

1. Open *Nvidia Control Panel* - on *Global Settings*, scroll down to *Power Management Mode*, change this to *Prefer Maximum Performance*

 

2. Click on Start - Control Panel - Power Options - Click on the Arrow to right of the screen, and select *High Performance mode*

 

2a. Whilst still in the same place, click on *Change Plan Settings* for *High Performance Mode* - then click on *Change Advanced Power Settings* - Scroll to *harddisk*, Click on the Little Plus Sign, and then click on the Little Plus Sign again for the *turn of harddisk* Setting, in the box type *0* and then press down - (thus making the setting to Never turn of harddisk)

 

see if the above improves load times.

 

these are mostly GPU and System optimizations however.

 

Eliminating power saving, will greatly improve performance. these default settings are completely designed for a laptop, not a high end desktop pc (which you have). and for saving money on electric bills but to be fair very minimal amount of money will be saved, and you will be sacrificing a lot of performance for that.

 

with these settings, i have an SSD as well, a Gtx 1070 and an i7 7700k, as well as complete 4k textures overhauls (Game is entirely in 4k Textures), and a plethora of other mods (255 Active ESP, 500 Active mods), ENB and Reshade

 

all of that and my loading times is literally only 5 to 10 seconds.

 

so their is a definitely an issue on your end, but as said try what i mentioned and see if that works, if it doesn't continue reading below:

 

 

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i will also mention that i am however on windows 7. which is much quicker then windows 10. so i am going to assume you are on windows 10, because of your hardware.

 

windows 10 comes with a lot of crapware, as well as have many more services running, most of which you probably don't need,

 

below this goes into more in depth tweaking:

 

i strongly recommend going on google and typing *Black Viper Windows tweaks* this guy mentions all windows services that is safe to disable. he does a lot of research and i strongly recommend checking it out. its lengthy process but your machine will run extremely quick, which in turn could greatly benefit games.

 

Edited August 1, 2018 by Guest